Monday, June 4, 2007

Hacking and Hackers Tips

Hacking and Hackers are the terms that generally trend to have negative effect on people.
They are not computer criminals, they are actually good, pleasant and extremely intelligent people, who by using their knowledge in a constructive manner help organizations to secure documents and company secrets, help the government to protect the national documents of strategic importance and even some times help justice to meet its ends by getting electronic evidence. Rather, these are the people who keep the computer criminals on the run.

I am not a hacker,but I am very much interested in it and read some books about it, I found the following books very interesting.

Maximum Security: A Hacker's guide to protecting your site and Network By SAMS Publication

Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking : by our own
Ankit fadia

Some Tricks :-

Every email has a header which contains the details of all the servers the email went through, starting from the senders IP, sender's ISP, intermediate routers, servers, and finally the receiver's server. Thus doing a reverse Domain name search of the originating server's IP address, we can get the details like the area, city to which the person belongs, and if u have an authorization u could get the House address,telephone no of the sender from the ISP. For doing a reverse DNS, we can use 'tracert' utility to get the details. There are softwares like Visual Route and Trace route that can do the work for you.These will tell you the details like the city and area.
There is another very accurate and efficient method to trace the person in case the email id is valid and he checks his mail. There is a website called readnotify.com which allows you to send emails through it to him and as soon as the person checks the emails it starts tracing his location and tell you the details like his operating system,IP address, location and the time he saw your mail and the number of times he opened ur mail. This Shows the location of the person on a geographic map, which could be zoomed in or out. NOTE: This site gives this facility only for a limited time and after that u have to register with it or use a new email account.
This site also gives you facility to send Self Destructing Mails, Which can be read only once and after that they get automatically destructed.It's a must try site for people who want to have some fun with your friends.

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Let’s help India.

Dear Friends,
After seeing Indian Cricket teams superb performance in past and present you need not to worry. We have clay tigers in team. They have only thing to do endorsement and making money. Indian cricket is not sport but its complete business.
15(excluding team mgmt) member company drives the business of more $1 Billion USD. Out of 10 advt. presented 3 are performed by cricketers. We have team of models rather than cricketers. Also I would like to highlight Cricket is team game (if we consider this as game) although individual contribution is very much important. There should be Quality and consistence performance has to be made criteria for selection rather than what 1 year or 4 year X player has done. Could any one remember that When Australian Cap Mark Waugh retired scored 82 runs in last match? He was playing good enough to continue in team but also have wanted to set the path for new youngsters in team. Australian, SA teams are very much professional and their pattern is periodic performance for going or not in team. In recent example when Ganguly was thrown he did hard work in his Team-OUT period and came back in team and was performing almost consistently. This indicates that such Team-IN and Team-OUT process has to be made as part of selection procedure. There are many members in team like.
Now Lets come to the point. 10 Hours per match considering 10 crore people watches Indian cricket in India. Hence 10*10Crore Hours=100 Crores Hours =416666 Man days =1141 Man Years!
Now you can see just 1 cricket match cause us to waste/lost 1141 years. How may we see in year played by India? Dear Friends, during those days when we see cricket US, JAPAN and all European works. They are developed and we are still developing country. I think if we keep on doing this will remain another next 50 years or more as developing country. Lets use your time smartly for your and nation’s productivity. Let’s help India.

Its my published article in "The times of india" on dated april 11,2007.

TIME MANAGEMENT

We see many people around us who spend their time in a frenzy of activity but achieve very little because they are not concentrating on the right things. They are perpetually busy but it does not necessarily mean that they make optimum utilization of their time. So there is a great need for effective Time Management in our lives today.
We keep hearing the word "Busy" a lot. There are two kinds of busy, chaotic, disorganized busy and calm effective busy. It goes without saying that being the latter helps to pack in more productivity in your work. Improving our "effectiveness Quotient" calls for mastery of basic time management skills.
We constantly hear the refrain that we do not know where the time goes. Whether you are an executive, a student or a homemaker, you need to achieve more in every minute of the day and to enjoy each task that you take up. We will be well on our way to the top if we know how to squeeze the most out of even a minute.
The first thing to bear in mind is to question whether you have a personal sense of time or a time log. This helps you to keep track of how you spend each hour. There is a way to do this. Divide each day for a period of two weeks into one hour intervals and jot down what you do in them. You can sub divide the activities under such headings as business meetings, writing, making phone calls, reading, time spent with the family etc. At the end of the week, examine your time log.
What you may find is that very little time goes into top priority activities and more into activities such as phone calls, coffee breaks, chatting with friends etc. Now is the time to analyze what activities are a waste of time and what need more time. Try to cut down time spent on useless activities or stop doing them altogether. Once you have prioritized your time, you will find your efficiency level rising and the end result is that you will be an achiever!